This is a bug in certain apps and games, not your card. I believe there is a driver update that fixes it, but if not the solution is to turn off the factory overclocking in the amd vision software.
Agreed. I went back to school after 4 years in the workforce and finished the last year of my 4 year degree entirely online. And to be perfectly honest, while lacking the true social element, I learned just as well, if not better in the online courses. Having said that, I don't think there is a university that will allow you to complete an entire degree online yet, aside from University of Phoenix and a few others I know nothing about, I referring to a traditional university. I was lucky to even do a year online, and it almost didn't work out. I am a firm believer that the right teachers, with the right tools can make an online school just as good as a traditional one.
For at least half of those people it isn'tt the actual device that is worth it, it's the whole "apple club" thing that is. I'm not saying there is anything wrong with that, just that they are 2 different things.
I have nothing against Apple, in fact I love the Macbook Pro, but this is definitely a biased review. I bought a tablet a few months ago, and I set out for the store fully intending to buy an iPad2. After comparing all the tablets on hand, I came home with the Motorola Xoom. Honeycomb is awesome, and the hardware kills the iPad in every department. It also runs Flash, very well. You can jump on the bandwagon and bash Flash and pretend you don't need it, but the fact is that Flash is a very useful tool when used properly by competent developers, and there are plenty of things online I enjoy that require it.
Now, I understand that the Xoom and the Galaxy are different devices, but the Xoom was SO much better than the iPad, that I find it really hard to believe that the Galaxy is as bad as this review tries to make it out to be.
So, after posting about my Firefox RAM experience I loaded up the latest stable Chrome, the latest stable Opera, and of course FF4. I loaded them each up with more tabs than I would ever use, each one in Identical order, and then allowed them to idle for quite sometime.
RAM Usage results:
Firefox 4 - 284 MB
Chrome - 312 MB
Opera - 345 MB
Which at least on 64 bit linux makes it the LEAST RAM hungry of the 3. I would also like to note that even Opera is using a very reasonable amount of RAM considering the number of tabs.
I will admit that FF3 was a pretty bad performer, and I, along with most folks switched to Chrome until the release of FF4. But today, with FF4 released, all of the major browsers performance are so close to one another, that it really negates performance as a bullet point when choosing a browser. Just pick your favorite in terms of UI, features, and extensibility, and use it. Right now the browser war is down to personal preference.
I'm not doubting you, but just wanted to point out that, at least on 64bit Linux, I've never seen FF4 get much over 200MB. That seems pretty reasonable to me.
Why should people like myself, who have a legitimate reason for services on different ports, be punished because others lack the skills to properly secure their networks? Are you suggesting that I should have to proxy all of my services through apache even when their is no benefit to doing so? This isn't a problem that will be fixed from the top down I'm afraid.
Troll. Silverlight sucks equally, if not worse, than Flash does in the performace department. Hulu works just fine, if you are having performance issues with Hulu then you need to upgrade your hardware, or not use Hulu. Hulu wouldn't be able to do what they are doing without Flash, save using Silverlight, and being a Linux user I am very happy they use Flash.
Random Flash bashing is really fucking old. Just because spammers misuse the technology doesn't make it bad in general. If you want to bash on Fash then join some Apple fanboy community and you can all talk out your asses together, leave it off Slashdot.
I live in Springville, same deal, Comcast or slow DSL. The frustrating thing is that Springville is the birthplace of Utah's fiber network. Years back I was getting free, unlimited fiber connection from Airswitch (remember them?) because I lived in the same block as the founder. Airswitch continued to lay fiber lines throughout the state, only to go out of business. In most cases the cities in which the fiber was laid bought all of the lines. Well now I have fiber to my house, but Springville has no plans of doing anything with it. So I'm stuck with craptastic Comcast.
So you think that big pharma is somehow better than the drug cartel? The only difference between them is legality. It shouldn't be regulated at all, save perhaps some agency that tests and labels the drugs so that folks know what they are buying exactly, and in what quantity. Let the free market regulate it. Addicts will be addicts regardless of law. The best thing we can do is try to help people be safe, and rid ourselves from the underground.
Maybe not, but I feel like most people understand it whether they think they do or not. It's not really 'that' hard to understand is it? I think people are just scared of math and that emotion makes it so much harder for people to understand in theory.
I also feel that in K-12 laziness and lack of caring play a huge role in kids 'getting' it. So, in that sense he is right, we are wasting money on a lot of kids who just don't give a damn, I know I didn't at those stages in my life. We should find a way to funnel that money to younger kids who are truly interested in Math and Sciences. Or, maybe leave sciences out of it all together, I hated math in high school, but I loved the sciences.
Of course, the public school system is so fucked up right now thanks to good old government incompetence, that it is impossible to fund only the bright and eager ones.
My oldest son started Kindergarten this year, and we made the tough decision to put him in a private school. We essentially picked academics over sports and friends, only because he is a smart kid, smarter than I ever was at that age. He was reading at a 5th grade level by age 4, understood addition and subtraction early on, and he is extremely creative. His creativity is very much in robotics, space exploration. etc. etc.. He was always sketching out designs for various robots he wants to build from a very early age, and while not always very practical, he was always solving problems with his inventions, and every now and then this 5 year old kid has some very good, good ideas, so good I'd like to claim them as my own.
Why was private school a hard decision then? Well, because both of my sons also have my body build (I'm 6' 4" 230, and 230 is skinny, not working out. Any men on my fathers side are tall and thick, viking heritage), my oldest will be taller than I, though isn't quite as thick yet, but I was tall and scrawny until about 6th grade also. He loves sports, football, soccer, basketball, baseball, as does my youngest. We play all of the time as a family, and they play city league sports together already. He is also fascinated by martial arts, probably due to my almost embarrassing kung fu fetish, so he takes Hapkido twice per week. Again, he is really a very big kid, and due to him unintentionally, and continually harming the kids in his age group, they quickly asked our permission to move him into the next age group. So even with kids nearly twice his age in some cases, he is still excelling, and earning new belts at about 1.5 time the rate of the rest of his class. He is highly competitive, and I believe it is healthy to let him play that out in individual and team sports through adolescence.
In his case, we felt that his love of science and engineering, paired with the fact that he is very bright, outweighed the social, sporting, and a few other pluses that we saw in public school. Now, we raised both kids in the same environment, in the same way, only we tried to recognize and foster their strong points. My youngest son is not stupid by any means, but he doesn't seem to have the aptitude for math and science that my eldest does. He is 4 now, and attending preschool. We are told that he does well across the board, be he too is excelling with reading. I believe they are both a testament to the importance of reading to your children daily, starting at birth. I very rarely miss a day of reading with my boys. In fact, my 5 year old learned of cryptography through some World War II documentary he watched that covered Enigma, etc., and is now currently obsessed with 'secret codes'. I pulled out my old copy of The Code Book, and that is what we are now reading. My 5 year old gets giddy every night at story time to learn more about cryptanalysis, while my younger son is very neutral about the book, he hasn't complained about it, but he doesn't care much either. My oldest and I have been making our own simple substitution ciphers and writing each other secret messages every morning. He takes a lot of pleasure in he and I
Pure troll. The only thing still even remotely slow about java is Swing. Gui-less server-side java is damn near native speed, super fast.
I really can't believe after all this time their are still so many misconceptions about Java. Probably just because a bunch of flunky PHP devs can't wrap their heads around real OO and Typing.
I really like OS X, and I find ObjC and the Cocoa API to be a joy to code with, but XCode is a real piece of shit. By far the worst IDE interface I have ever used.
yep and you are talking a bout one scenario with HARDWARE acceleration. Flash has hardware acceleration too, just not on the N1. This has nothing to do with the argument at hand.
No that tells you that since Apple won't allow Flash on the iPhone they were forced to build an app for the iOS so that those users weren't left out, that has nothing to do with HTML5, which is NOT wht there iOS app is built in. You have really only proved my point for me.
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This is a bug in certain apps and games, not your card. I believe there is a driver update that fixes it, but if not the solution is to turn off the factory overclocking in the amd vision software.
Agreed. I went back to school after 4 years in the workforce and finished the last year of my 4 year degree entirely online. And to be perfectly honest, while lacking the true social element, I learned just as well, if not better in the online courses. Having said that, I don't think there is a university that will allow you to complete an entire degree online yet, aside from University of Phoenix and a few others I know nothing about, I referring to a traditional university. I was lucky to even do a year online, and it almost didn't work out. I am a firm believer that the right teachers, with the right tools can make an online school just as good as a traditional one.
For at least half of those people it isn'tt the actual device that is worth it, it's the whole "apple club" thing that is. I'm not saying there is anything wrong with that, just that they are 2 different things.
Already exists. At least for Android.
The US supposedly does not allow cruel and unusual punishment.
I believe he was referring to 'looser'
I have nothing against Apple, in fact I love the Macbook Pro, but this is definitely a biased review. I bought a tablet a few months ago, and I set out for the store fully intending to buy an iPad2. After comparing all the tablets on hand, I came home with the Motorola Xoom. Honeycomb is awesome, and the hardware kills the iPad in every department. It also runs Flash, very well. You can jump on the bandwagon and bash Flash and pretend you don't need it, but the fact is that Flash is a very useful tool when used properly by competent developers, and there are plenty of things online I enjoy that require it. Now, I understand that the Xoom and the Galaxy are different devices, but the Xoom was SO much better than the iPad, that I find it really hard to believe that the Galaxy is as bad as this review tries to make it out to be.
So just out of curiousity I went an ran the exact same test on my Macbook Pro, running 10.6, and the latest FF4.
So same test as for Linux, 3 exact same sites open in seperate tabs, 2 pinned = 204.6 MB
So not as good as my Linux box, but certainly no 400 MB. Are you sure you are running latest FF4?
Linux seems to be far better then.
Freshly opened, 3 tabs - 2 pinned (gmail, gvoice) plus igoogle = 156.2 MB
So, after posting about my Firefox RAM experience I loaded up the latest stable Chrome, the latest stable Opera, and of course FF4. I loaded them each up with more tabs than I would ever use, each one in Identical order, and then allowed them to idle for quite sometime. RAM Usage results: Firefox 4 - 284 MB Chrome - 312 MB Opera - 345 MB Which at least on 64 bit linux makes it the LEAST RAM hungry of the 3. I would also like to note that even Opera is using a very reasonable amount of RAM considering the number of tabs. I will admit that FF3 was a pretty bad performer, and I, along with most folks switched to Chrome until the release of FF4. But today, with FF4 released, all of the major browsers performance are so close to one another, that it really negates performance as a bullet point when choosing a browser. Just pick your favorite in terms of UI, features, and extensibility, and use it. Right now the browser war is down to personal preference.
I'm not doubting you, but just wanted to point out that, at least on 64bit Linux, I've never seen FF4 get much over 200MB. That seems pretty reasonable to me.
Don't know, but I can confirm the exact same issue in FF4 on Deb. It's getting really annoying.
want to be in a 'Cybergang'! That sounds fucking awesome...
Why should people like myself, who have a legitimate reason for services on different ports, be punished because others lack the skills to properly secure their networks? Are you suggesting that I should have to proxy all of my services through apache even when their is no benefit to doing so? This isn't a problem that will be fixed from the top down I'm afraid.
Troll. Silverlight sucks equally, if not worse, than Flash does in the performace department. Hulu works just fine, if you are having performance issues with Hulu then you need to upgrade your hardware, or not use Hulu. Hulu wouldn't be able to do what they are doing without Flash, save using Silverlight, and being a Linux user I am very happy they use Flash. Random Flash bashing is really fucking old. Just because spammers misuse the technology doesn't make it bad in general. If you want to bash on Fash then join some Apple fanboy community and you can all talk out your asses together, leave it off Slashdot.
I live in Springville, same deal, Comcast or slow DSL. The frustrating thing is that Springville is the birthplace of Utah's fiber network. Years back I was getting free, unlimited fiber connection from Airswitch (remember them?) because I lived in the same block as the founder. Airswitch continued to lay fiber lines throughout the state, only to go out of business. In most cases the cities in which the fiber was laid bought all of the lines. Well now I have fiber to my house, but Springville has no plans of doing anything with it. So I'm stuck with craptastic Comcast.
So you think that big pharma is somehow better than the drug cartel? The only difference between them is legality. It shouldn't be regulated at all, save perhaps some agency that tests and labels the drugs so that folks know what they are buying exactly, and in what quantity. Let the free market regulate it. Addicts will be addicts regardless of law. The best thing we can do is try to help people be safe, and rid ourselves from the underground.
And that makes perfect sense considering that most folks use their drivers license to buy alcohol.
I've had MUCH better experience with ATI on Ubuntu than Nvidia.
Maybe not, but I feel like most people understand it whether they think they do or not. It's not really 'that' hard to understand is it? I think people are just scared of math and that emotion makes it so much harder for people to understand in theory.
I also feel that in K-12 laziness and lack of caring play a huge role in kids 'getting' it. So, in that sense he is right, we are wasting money on a lot of kids who just don't give a damn, I know I didn't at those stages in my life. We should find a way to funnel that money to younger kids who are truly interested in Math and Sciences. Or, maybe leave sciences out of it all together, I hated math in high school, but I loved the sciences.
Of course, the public school system is so fucked up right now thanks to good old government incompetence, that it is impossible to fund only the bright and eager ones.
My oldest son started Kindergarten this year, and we made the tough decision to put him in a private school. We essentially picked academics over sports and friends, only because he is a smart kid, smarter than I ever was at that age. He was reading at a 5th grade level by age 4, understood addition and subtraction early on, and he is extremely creative. His creativity is very much in robotics, space exploration. etc. etc.. He was always sketching out designs for various robots he wants to build from a very early age, and while not always very practical, he was always solving problems with his inventions, and every now and then this 5 year old kid has some very good, good ideas, so good I'd like to claim them as my own.
Why was private school a hard decision then? Well, because both of my sons also have my body build (I'm 6' 4" 230, and 230 is skinny, not working out. Any men on my fathers side are tall and thick, viking heritage), my oldest will be taller than I, though isn't quite as thick yet, but I was tall and scrawny until about 6th grade also. He loves sports, football, soccer, basketball, baseball, as does my youngest. We play all of the time as a family, and they play city league sports together already. He is also fascinated by martial arts, probably due to my almost embarrassing kung fu fetish, so he takes Hapkido twice per week. Again, he is really a very big kid, and due to him unintentionally, and continually harming the kids in his age group, they quickly asked our permission to move him into the next age group. So even with kids nearly twice his age in some cases, he is still excelling, and earning new belts at about 1.5 time the rate of the rest of his class. He is highly competitive, and I believe it is healthy to let him play that out in individual and team sports through adolescence.
In his case, we felt that his love of science and engineering, paired with the fact that he is very bright, outweighed the social, sporting, and a few other pluses that we saw in public school. Now, we raised both kids in the same environment, in the same way, only we tried to recognize and foster their strong points. My youngest son is not stupid by any means, but he doesn't seem to have the aptitude for math and science that my eldest does. He is 4 now, and attending preschool. We are told that he does well across the board, be he too is excelling with reading. I believe they are both a testament to the importance of reading to your children daily, starting at birth. I very rarely miss a day of reading with my boys. In fact, my 5 year old learned of cryptography through some World War II documentary he watched that covered Enigma, etc., and is now currently obsessed with 'secret codes'. I pulled out my old copy of The Code Book, and that is what we are now reading. My 5 year old gets giddy every night at story time to learn more about cryptanalysis, while my younger son is very neutral about the book, he hasn't complained about it, but he doesn't care much either. My oldest and I have been making our own simple substitution ciphers and writing each other secret messages every morning. He takes a lot of pleasure in he and I
Pure troll. The only thing still even remotely slow about java is Swing. Gui-less server-side java is damn near native speed, super fast. I really can't believe after all this time their are still so many misconceptions about Java. Probably just because a bunch of flunky PHP devs can't wrap their heads around real OO and Typing.
I really like OS X, and I find ObjC and the Cocoa API to be a joy to code with, but XCode is a real piece of shit. By far the worst IDE interface I have ever used.
Yep, CFL's are NOT "green". LED is the future, and always should have been. This florescent fad is poisoning the earth.
yep and you are talking a bout one scenario with HARDWARE acceleration. Flash has hardware acceleration too, just not on the N1. This has nothing to do with the argument at hand.
No that tells you that since Apple won't allow Flash on the iPhone they were forced to build an app for the iOS so that those users weren't left out, that has nothing to do with HTML5, which is NOT wht there iOS app is built in. You have really only proved my point for me.